Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Escape. The Bunker Hill's fight for survival lasted through many agonizing hours. A huge pillar of smoke billowed from the after half of the ship, where blazing gasoline and oil sloshed around. Crewmen manned hoses in the face of flames which scorched them to the limit of endurance. Part of the Marine detachment stayed in an ovenlike compartment, throwing bombs and rockets overboard. Tons of water, covered with burning gas and oil, were spilled off over the side in a sharp, skillful turn worked out by the navigator, Commander Charles J. Odend...
...I.N.S. also make costly demands: in 26 U.S. cities, a new publisher would have to pay off heavily to his established rival-no matter which one of the three big wire services he bought. Said Justice Hugo Black (who wrote the majority decision): "The net effect is seriously to limit the opportunity of any new paper to enter these cities . . . and to frustrate the free enterprise system which it was the purpose of the Sherman Act to protect...
...last week, the smile that helped make Ott everybody's ballplayer was being strained to the limit. After racing to the longest lead of any big league team in a quarter century (25 wins against seven defeats), his Giants fell flat on their faces. They lost 21 out of 29 games (including a doubleheader with the hopeless Phillies), crashed from first to fifth place in eight days. The astounding Brooklyn Dodgers, who had once been doped as pitiful or worse, had taken a three-and-a-half-game lead-with the Cardinals, Pirates, Giants, Cubs and Braves...
...looking forward to a full program of athletics, as far as manpower permits, including crew, tennis, and baseball. All games, said Getchell, will be scheduled for Wednesdays and Saturdays, as was done this past term, though he may have to limit sports to Saturdays alone, if not enough players are available...
Wedgies will be widely worn in London this season (there is a two-inch limit on high heels). But there are plenty of reptile skins and blue kids, which are scarce in the U.S. Quality is pretty well up to previous footwear, but styles are unstimulating...